Fare-box.



G. B. KOHLER.

FARE BOX.

unmu'mx mum 00125, 1910.

1 968384;. Patented July 29, 1913.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

e. B. KOHLER.

FARE BOX.

APPLIOATIOI nun 00125, 1910.

Patented July 29, 1913.

G. B. KOHLER. FARE BOX.

APPLIOATIOI FILED 00m. 1010.

1,068,784. Patented July 29, 1913.

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NITED smlgsiigrnnr OFFICE;

GEORGE B. KOHLER, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNQR THE J- BBJLLCOMPANY, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION '91 PENNQSYLVANIA.

FARE-BOX.

' ments in fare boxes use particularly on passenger cars or on platformsleading to passenger ears.

One object of my invention is to so construct the fare box that it willregister both the cash and tickets, separately.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Applicl-tion filed .October 5, 1810. Serial K0. 585,470.

A further object of the invention is to; provide means for'locking thefare box to the standard or other permanent fixture to I which it isattached.

A still further object is to'construct the; mechanism of the box in amanner which;

will be simple and yet effective.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1, i is a side view, partly insection, illustrating view; Fig. 3, is a sectional plan view on the myimproved fare box; Fig. 2, is a plan line aa, Fig. 1; Fig. 1, is asectional view 1 on the line b-b, Fig. 3; Fig. 5, is a perspective viewillustrating the operating mechanism; Fig. 6, is a detached perspectiveview 5 illustrating details of part of the mechanism shown in Fig. 5;Fig. 7 is a sectional a view showing part of the box inverted; Fig. 8,is a detached perspective view showing in detail the mechanism forlocking the box to 3 its support; and Fig. 9, is a view showingthe boxmounted on a fixed support.

1 is the body of the box and in the bottom 3 of this body portion is adrawer 2 which is locked when closed.

3 is he hood of the box forming the top of the body 1 and inclosing theregistering mechanism.

4 is the fare receiving section of the box having posts 5 at the cornersand glazed sides 6. \Vithin this fare receiving section are inclineddeflectors 7, over which the cash or tickets must pass to the platform8. The platform 8 is pivoted to a carrier 9 which is mounted on a shaft10. A link 11 connects the platform 8 with an arm on the shaft 10, sothat as the shaft is turned the platform will move forward and tip,discharging the coins or tickets into the chute 12 leading to PatentedJuly 29, 191 3,

the fare drawer 2 in the bottom of the be On the shaft 10 is an arm 13which contacts with a pivoted clapper 14, which contacts in turn with abell 15, as clearly shown in Fig.

3. A slide 16 is mounted on the frame 17,

and this slide is connected by a link 18 to one arm 19 of a hand lever20 pivoted at 21 to the casing 3, so that on movin the hand lever ineither direction the s ide' will be reciprocated. It will understoodthat when the hand lever is moved in one direction the mechanism is soarranged that it.-

will actuate the ticket register, while when moved in the oppositedirection it will operate the cash register.

22 is the ticket register and 23 is the cash 7 register. The ticketregister has a series of numbered disks '24 betweenwhi c'h are ears 25meshing with pinions 26 on a shaft Each of the first four disks arenotched-at one side of the numbers and every. third tooth ofeach pinion26 is extended so asto enter the notch, so that when the first diskmakes a complete revolution the second will be moved a sufiicientdistance to bring another figure into view, and so on throiigh out theseries. I lay no claim to this particular construction of register inthis applica- On the end of the shaft- 28 of the registering mechanism22 is an arm 29 havingfa which extends into a slot 30 of a curved arm 131 pivoted to the slide 16. Pivoted to the opposite end of the slide 16is a'n'ar'ni hav'inga slot 33 into which extends a' pin on an arm 34 ofthe shaft 35 of the registering mechanism 23. when the slide 16 ,ismoved in the direction of the arr-ow, Fig. 1, it will cause the arms 31and 82 to slide over the pins of the registering mechanisms, and b forethe slide moves to its full extent the pin is at one end of the arm 31,and eontinued movementof the slide 16 the arm 31 will turn the shaft 28a suflicien-t dista'hce to bring a figure in line with the opening inthe casing 3, thus registering a ticket. This will not afi'ect theregistering mechanism When the sii-de 16 is moved in the oppositedirection to that indicated by the arrow, it will not actuate theregistering medianism 22 but will actuate the registering mechanism 28,indicating cash. As soon as the that the shaft will be actuated in onedirec tion no matter m which way the slide is moved, I form a stopon-the slide'16 which prevents the movement of the arm 39 independentlyof the slide whenthe slide is moved-in the direction of the 'arrow, Fig;1', so that .on the-movementmf the slide in the direction oi the arrowthe arm d-3 will -be pusheds'o as to-tum theshait 10 andtip the platmS.

When the-slide is moved in' the-direction bpposite to. that indicatedby'the arrow,- then the arm-89 becomes a-let erandaprojection lever, andwhile the upper end-ofthe hrm 'l39 is moving-in one directionthd-lower-endof the arm as moving-.- in' the opposite direction andwillcause the arm 43 and the shaft 1O to move in the same directionas-when the slide was movingin the direction" ori inall 3 indicated,sothat no matter in! whatdireci-tion therslide is moved? the" platform-'8 on which the coins or tickets are deposited will be tipped so astodischarge the fare' intothe receptacle within the boxi 1 85 I 1 Thepin42 is 'held' in' its normal position m the'notchcs 41 of the 6, toengage-the rounde'den ofthe ar'm43. This block -is-conn'ected to the=outer ends of the links 40'by -a' pivot-pin KI-and has a stemi48 whichextends-into an opening in -a weight 49 pivoted on the shaft 10. Theweight issufiicient to: holdi the'parts in contact-when the fare boxisin itsmormal position,& but should the fa-rebox be inverted, the

weight willdrop, causin the blook=to draw awaynfrom the end of t e arm43,- and the links will also fall away 'from theirpins- 42,

smthat .anymovement .of-. the: hand lever 20, 50 will not; operate. theplatform 8.. Thisconand-is adapted to the slots 52 in the side v I s arenotched at 41'and resting' the notches'are piiis42' on an arm 43 securedlinks 40 by a block I 46 lwhich is shaped, as clearl' shownin Fig.

portion. ofitheibox in the inas: illustrated in" the vperspectivemembers of the frame 17, and the sub-frame is held to the main frame 17by screws 53, sothat; on removing :the screws the subframe carrying theregistering mechanism can bedetached when examination or repairs arenecessary.

The fare box'is d'etachably mounted on a .rail, post or other part ofthe 'car structure.

and when removed the box and bolt is manipulated so as to allow the boxto be detached from its support. In the present instance, as illustratedin Fig. 9,- two sockets 54 are mounted on a post 55 and on the box aretwo undercut beveled projections 56,

Figs, l and 2, which fit in the sockets 541 Pivotedat 57 to the interiorof the box is a bolt 58 having a projecting portion 59' which enters anotch in one of the sockets 54. On

turning thebolt on its pivot 57 it is withdrawn from the notch andthe-box can be removed from the sockets. The bolt is actu Q ated bya"lever--60 projectin through an 4-5 on the: frame adts as a 'fulci'umfor -the openingin the box; the. lever eing pivoted the platform 8 so asto' dischargeany fares remaining on the platform prior'to the iremovalof'the boxfrom its supports- -By this; means it will be-impossible for aperson willfully to collect fares in-the bottom of the receivin section,then detach the box and-invert 1t so as to remove thecash or tickets.The lever 60 can also be used by the conductor to tilt the platform 8without operating the registering mechanism, should a ticket not passthrough the opening on the first tilting of the platform by the lever20. By the above construction it will be seen that the improved fare boxwill register, separately, the tickets and the cash-fares. By simplymovingthe registering lever in one direction when the cashfares are inserted in the box one register will-be actuated, andwhen tickets areinserted in the box the lever is moved in the opposite direc:

' tio'n, actuating the registering mechanism for the tickets. Both thetickets and the cash in the present instance are discharged into .thesame receptacle, but they can be readilyseparated when .the box iisopened,

and the ticket registershould agree-with the number of tickets in thebox-. and the cash register should-agree with the amountof move thefares by' manipulatin the box when inverted. Furthermore, t e mecha nismfor operating the latform 8 is auto matically thrown out 0 operativeposition when the box is inverted.

I claim a 1. The combination in a fare box, of two registeringmechanisms; and a single operating lever therefor.

2. The combination in a fare box, of a discharge device for fares; tworegistering mechanisms; a single operating lever; means connecting theoperating lever with the discharge device so that it will operate saiddischarge device when moved in either direction; and means connectingthe lever with the two registering mechanisms so that one registeringmechanism will be operated when the lever is moved in one direction andthe other registering mechanism will be operated when the lever is movedin the opposite direction.

3. The combination in a fare box, of two registering mechanisms; and asingle operating lever connected to both registering mechanisms, onemechanism being operated when the lever is moved in one directlon andthe other mechanism being operated when the lever is moved in theopposite direction.

4. The combination in a fare box, of a slide; an actuatin lever forreciprocatin said slide; two registering mechanisms; an means connectingthe slide with both registering mechanisms so that when the slide ismoved in one direction, one registering mechanism will be operated andwhen moved in the opposite direction the other registering mechanismwill be operated.

5. The combination in a fare box, of a slide; an operating leverconnected to the slide; two registering mechanisms, one operated whenthe slide is moved in one direction and the other operated when theslide is moved in the opposite direction; and connections between theslide and the dischargemeans, whereby the discharge means will beactuated when the slide is moved in either direction.

6. The combination of a hand lever; a slide; two registering mechanisms,each registering mechanism consisting of a series of rotatable disks; acrank arm on a shaft of each mechanism; slotted arms pivoted to theslide; pins on the crank arms extending through the slots in the arms sothat as the hand lever is moved in one direction one register will beactuated and when the hand lever is moved in the opposite direction theother register will be operated.

7. The combination in a fare box, of a casing; a detachable framemounted therein; registering mechanism carried by the said frame; aslide, also carried by the frame and connected to the mechanism, theframe being so arranged that all of the operating mechanism for theregisters can be removed with the frame.

8. The combination in a fare box, of a discharge device for the fares;two registering mechanisms; a hand lever for simultaneously operatingone of said registers and the discharge device; with a separate leverfor actuating the discharge device without operating the registers.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE B. KOHLER.

Witnesses:

WM. E. SHUPE, WM. A. BARR.

